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South Africa Marks 30 Years Since Its Return to Football

Today, July 7, 2022, South African football celebrated 30 years to the day since the country’s national team returned to playing football after decades of apartheid-enforced isolation.

The match against Cameroon, who had captured Africa’s imagination – including that of pariah state South Africa – with their run to the 1990 World Cup quarter-finals, was the first of three and ushered in an exciting time full of hope and expectation.

Four days before the game took place, on 3 July 1992, South Africa’s membership of world governing body Fifa – which had been suspended in 1964 prior to expulsion 10 years later – had been restored.

This came after the demolishing of apartheid had led to the creation of a new multi-racial South African FA (Safa) a year earlier.

Source: BBC

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